Improvement in curry-combs



l. W. THU 88 ELL.

Curry-Combs.

Patented Nov. 25,1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WV. TRUSSELL, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM P.

KELLOGG 8: (30., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURRY-COMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,033, dated November26,1873; application filed June 17, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. TRUSSELL, of Troy, in the county ofRensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Curr -Combs; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hadto the annexed drawings making part of my specification, in which IFigure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 3is a transverse section.

The same letters are employed in all the figures in the designation ofidentical parts.

The body of the curry-comb is formed of a series of pieces of sheetmetal. The section A, nearest the handle, is bent so as to form a troughwith three sides, the edges being serrated. The plates from which theothers, A, are formed are bent at right angles, as shown, and areserrated only upon the lower edges. The other edges are overlapped uponthe angle of the section next in series, so as merely to have a bearingupon the upper surface along the plate and near the angle, as shown.Slots are cut through the plates immediately below the angles to receivethe braces B, which are formed of strips of sheet metal, and the bracesand teeth sections are connected by a series of rivets, O, passingthrough the sections, and through the braces, and their heads are drawndown in clinching the rivets, so as to compress the sections against thebraces and draw the edges of the former firmly against the angles of thenext section in series. The slots should be of the length of the widthof the braces B, so as to take off the lateral strain from the rivetswhen the curry-comb is cleaned in the usual manner by striking with thepoints F, riveted at the corners, against a solid object. The handle Dis attached to a triangular piece,

E, which is riveted to the sections, and serves as a brace to stiffenthe curry-comb.

Curry-combs have beenmade of similarlybent,sections, but the top part ofeach section has been made to extend across the upper surface of thenext section in the series, and secured to one another by rivets passingthrough both of the plates forming the back. Braces have also beenemployed on the backs of ourry-combs to stiffen them.

I do not claim curry-combs made with overlapping sections, broadly; but,by connecting the sections, as I do, I am enabled to reduce the quantityof metal required, and at the same time to make as good an article; nordo I claim, broadly, the use of braces. The feature of noveltyintroduced in this invention consists in passing it along the inner faceof the back, through slots forming shoulders, to resist lateral strain.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. A currycomb formed in sections A A, overlapping only enough to form abearing at the angle of the next section in the series, and with bracesB B, passing along the inner faces of the back through slots, andconfined to the sections of the back by rivets, substantially in themanner as set forth.

2. A curry-comb constructed in sections A A, in which are slots toreceive braces B B, passing along the back, to which they are secured byrivets, the ends of the slots forming shoulders to relieve the rivetsfrom lateral strain, substantially as set forth.

.In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses: JOHN \V.

O. L. ALDEN, HYMAN Hnss.

TRUSSELL.

